I’m finally getting around to getting a passport, which I will need for my trip to Europe this summer. I did some quick searching to see how one goes about getting a passport and found these “simple” instructions. It doesn’t surprise me that a bureaucracy can take 6 simple steps and turn it into a…
More good stuff from the Dilbert Blog today.
At home, I maintain my book collection, reading list, and story submissions databases within MySQL on my iMac. I have scripts that take this data and either build static pages, or create flat files that can be used by perl or PHP scripts to present the data on my website. Currently, my reading list is…
I normally do my cardio workouts MWF afternoon, but Comcast is coming to the house this evening to deliver the digital DVR so I was up at 4:30 AM and into the gym at 6 AM.
I worked out with Bernard this afternoon for the first time in several weeks. My workouts with Bernard always seem harder than my workouts by myself but with my new focus, I felt pretty good about this one, a mixture of legs and chest.
Isaac Asimov wrote a series of history books for Houghton Mifflin company back in the 1960s and early 1970s. I think there were 14 books in all and that can be pretty hard to come by. Being a collector, I have 9 of them and today a tenth arrived from Powell’s Books, The Dark Ages.…
I’ve been incredibly busy today, both writing code and giving presentations. But I have a few minutes before I head off to the gym and I’ve been itching to write about something I was thinking about in the shower last night. Are you manual or electric? In thinking about manual things in our life and…
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I didn’t get home from work until almost 7 PM because of a late meeting I had to attend this evening. Therefore, I skipped dinner tonight, and headed straight into the office to do some work on “If By Reason of Strength…” I wrote about 500 words and I think it’s pretty good. Too early…
Todd and I have, for years, debated as to whether the things mentioned in Alanis Morissette’s song, “Ironic” are, in fact, ironic. I say not, they are not. He says yes they are. Over the years, he has built up a steady stream of coworkers who take up his side of the argument. (In my…